Impact of Antimicrobial Stewardship on Healthcare-Associated Infections
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Antibiotics Use and Antimicrobial Stewardship".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 138
Special Issue Editor
Interests: antimicrobial stewardship; bacterial infections; antibiotics
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Dear Colleagues,
Healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) caused by multi-drug-resistant bacteria are the most threatening and visible consequence of antimicrobial resistance. Difficult-to-treat infections negatively affect the successful therapy of many life-threatening diseases and conditions such as cancer, polytrauma, severe decompensations of chronic diseases, extremes of age, etc. The control of HCAI caused by resistant bacteria is one of the priorities of modern medicine and surgery. Infection prevention and control measures could solve some of the problem, but it is very difficult to eliminate antimicrobial resistance in the long term. The enhancement of antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) has been recently recognized as the most effective strategy for controlling antimicrobial resistance. AMS was first introduced in hospitals, followed by other healthcare settings. AMS in hospitals has been studied extensively, and its use has been recommended by many national and supranational authorities. The most commonly used interventions still lack scientific confirmation of their efficacy and safety. At the same time, AMS implementation depends very much upon the healthcare setting, creating different barriers to its full development. AMS interventions seem most difficult to implement in high-level-resistance settings, which is where they are the most needed. This Special Issue will focus on new science and sharing successful practices for the use of AMS in the control of HCAI caused by multi-drug-resistant bacteria.
Prof. Dr. Bojana Beović
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- antimicrobial stewardship
- hospitals
- antimicrobial resistance
- antimicrobial stewardship interventions
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